The Wonders of Elora: Or, the Narrative of a Journey to the Temples And ...
The Wonders of Elora: Or, the Narrative of a Journey to the Temples And ...
John Benjamin Seely
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Above and beyond this the road to the summit is very steep, and on the top is some scattered and stunted brushwood. The house of the killahdar is said to be a hand- some building, enclosed by a large virandft. Oh the very top is a brass twenty-four pounder, and near it is the flag of the Nizam. At a distance of about three thousand yards from the insulated hill are two ranges of hills. Within the subterranean passage mentioned, are recesses excavated as store-* rooms, llie fortress at present m...ounts but few guns. Dowlutabad has always been thought by the natives impregnable, and doubtless it is against the Asiatic mode of warfare. Our system of mili- tary tactics and operations has put these hill*forti out of fashion. To a native government what avails the strength of a fortress, when the defenders have al) of them their price ? When I passed by Dowlutabad, in these, comparatively speaking, peaceable times, the family of the killahdar (governor) were kept as hostages at Hyderabad. This want of fidelity in the superior oflScers, and their rude mode of warfare, have given us the advantage in the field and in the cabinet.
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